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30 Dec 2019 Conversations with Tyler Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India
“Any number of the vernacular writers who are not read. I would say among novelists, I only really read Bangla.”
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- Abhijit Banerjee
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- 30 Dec 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Who is an underrated Indian writer of importance to you? Any number of the vernacular writers who are not read. I would say among novelists, I only really read Bangla. But that’s not to say that there aren’t other similar people in other languages, but Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Manik Bandopadhyay, Satinath Bhaduri — just amazingly good novel-form literature from the ’20s to the ’70s, and also amazingly good poetry, both of which are just not read by anybody. Is it translatable into English or —…
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